Andrea Copp

Andrea Copp's work is an expression of intimacy, memory and the quiet sacredness of everyday experiences. She uses a variety of clays – porcelain, stoneware, and recycled bodies – each chosen for the structure, colour, and purpose. Her process is rooted in experimentation: layering different materials, embedding stones or shells, playing with texture and tension. Andrea allows the clay to lead, and undoing so, the piece often reveals an emotional landscape she had not consciously planned – echoes of the sea, the forest, the cathedral, or the fractured shape of a past love.

Much of Andrea’s work is built by hand, coil by coil. It’s slow and meditative. Her environment – both external and emotional – is layered into the surface. Grief, longing, moments of joy or uncertainty – all these states live quietly within her pieces.